Altman Reflects on Death and Immortality: The Human Mind Crystallizes Over Time
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-07-24
Sam Altman shared his complex feelings about death and the desire to live forever. While the will to survive drives human progress and accomplishment, holding too tightly to current details demands stasis and blocks new possibilities.
He observes that human minds "crystallize" over our lifespan, making smaller updates in response to change, leaving our internal world models increasingly out of date. He notes that his identity, built atop outdated experiences and memories of the dead, dooms him to feel increasingly out of sync with the moving world, even if his body were somehow restored.
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